DeVeDe is a program or front-end to command line utilities to create video DVDs and CDs (VCD, sVCD or CVD), suitables for home players, from any number of video files, in any of the formats supported by Mplayer. The big advantage over other utilities is that it only needs Mplayer, Mencoder, DVDAuthor, VCDImager and MKisofs (well, and Python 2.4, PyGTK and PyGlade), so its dependencies are really small.
Install DeVeDe
Use apt-get command to install DeVeDe:
$ sudo apt-get install devede
To create dvds just type devede at command prompt:
$ devede &
You can also start devede by visiting Applications > Sound & Video > Devede
Just choose the DVD / VCD type and follow on screen instructions.
Create DVD from command line
Following tools get installed with devede:
- mencoder : MPlayer’s Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder
- ffmpeg : FFmpeg video converter
- dvdauthor : assembles multiple mpeg program streams into a suitable DVD filesystem
So if you are a pro command line user, type the following commands to convert file1.avi fille2.avi to DVD format (if you are not comfortable with command line use devede GUI software and just skip following commands) :
$ cat file1.avi file2.avi > ccmovie.avi
Now run movie encoder to create out.avi from ccmovie.avi (option -ovc and -oac sets no encoding, just streamcopy)
$ mencoder -o out.avi -noidx -oac copy -ovc copy ccmovie.avi
Output:
MEncoder 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu13 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 11) CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x385ceda AVI file format detected. VIDEO: [MP42] 544x400 24bpp 29.970 fps 485.6 kbps (59.3 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x3234504D size:544x400 fps:29.97 ftime:=0.0334 videocodec: framecopy (544x400 24bpp fourcc=3234504d) audiocodec: framecopy (format=55 chans=2 rate=44100 bits=0 B/s=16743 sample-0) Writing header... ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header. Writing header... ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header. Writing index...99f (100%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 55mb A-V:0.013 [474:133] Writing header... ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header. Video stream: 474.111 kbit/s (59263 B/s) size: 45083566 bytes 760.727 secs 22799 frames Audio stream: 133.948 kbit/s (16743 B/s) size: 12736975 bytes 760.712 secs
Next run FFmpeg video converter to set aspect ratio, ntsc dvd television standard etc:
$ ffmpeg -i out.avi -y -target ntsc-dvd -sameq -aspect 16:9 out.mpg
Output:
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0 libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0 libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0 built on Jun 3 2007 20:59:25, gcc: 4.1.3 20070528 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-9ubuntu2) Input #0, avi, from 'out.avi': Duration: 00:12:40.7, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 621 kb/s Stream #0.0: Video: msmpeg4v2, yuv420p, 544x400, 29.97 fps(r) Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, 32 kb/s Output #0, dvd, to 'out.mpg': Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, q=2-31, 6000 kb/s, 29.97 fps(c) Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 448 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 Stream #0.1 -> #0.1 Press [q] to stop encoding frame=22798 q=0.0 Lsize= 312758kB time=760.7 bitrate=3368.3kbits/s
At a high level, a DVD is a collection of menus and titles. Conceptually, a menu contains buttons which can be assigned actions and provides a list of choices to the end user, while a title contains the main content of the DVD. However, in reality many of the features available in menus (including buttons, pausing, and looping) are also available in titles. Use dvdauthor assembles multiple mpeg program streams into a suitable DVD filesystem. You should see DVD filesytem in dvd directory:
$ dvdauthor --title -o dvd -f out.mpg
Output:
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14. Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net> INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS STAT: Picking VTS 01 STAT: Processing out.mpg... STAT: VOBU 1888 at 304MB, 1 PGCS INFO: Video pts = 0.500 .. 761.193 INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.500 .. 761.204 STAT: VOBU 1900 at 305MB, 1 PGCS INFO: Generating VTS with the following video attributes: INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2 INFO: TV standard: ntsc INFO: Aspect ratio: 16:9 INFO: Resolution: 720x480 INFO: Audio ch 0 format: ac3/2ch, 48khz drc STAT: fixed 1900 VOBUS
Creates the table of contents file instead of a titleset:
$ dvdauthor -o dvd -T
Output:
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14. Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net> INFO: dvdauthor creating table of contents INFO: Scanning dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
Create dvd.iso:
$ mkisofs -dvd-video -o dvd.iso dvd/
Output:
Setting input-charset to 'UTF-8' from locale. 3.20% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:50 2007 6.38% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:50 2007 9.57% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:50 2007 12.76% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:50 2007 15.95% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:50 2007 19.13% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:50 2007 22.33% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:54 2007 25.51% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:53 2007 28.70% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:53 2007 31.88% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:53 2007 35.08% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:52 2007 38.26% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:52 2007 41.45% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:52 2007 44.64% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:54 2007 47.83% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:54 2007 51.01% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:53 2007 54.21% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:53 2007 57.39% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:53 2007 60.58% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:53 2007 63.77% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:54 2007 66.96% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:54 2007 70.14% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:54 2007 73.33% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:54 2007 76.52% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:53 2007 79.71% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:53 2007 82.89% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:53 2007 86.09% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:53 2007 89.27% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:54 2007 92.46% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:55 2007 95.65% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:55 2007 98.84% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 9 16:49:55 2007 Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0 Total directory bytes: 4096 Path table size(bytes): 42 Max brk space used 0 156833 extents written (306 MB)
Burn dvd.iso to DVD disk:
$ growisofs -dvd-compat -dvd-video -speed=4 -Z /dev/dvd dvd/*
Further readings:
- Devede software home page
- Refer man pages: dvdauthor, ffmpeg, mencoder etc
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- Last Updated: Jan/28/2008
{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
Thanks for the nice article.
As far as I know the last command should be:
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=dvd.iso
to burn the already prepared image to DVD.
The command written in the article probably will use the directory structure instead of the prepared image.
Hi,
excellent article! created a script and my server does it all automatic :-)
only thing to mention: i removed the -aspect option of ffmpeg because the video was resized not correctly –
thx a lot
cheers